Julie had come West expecting a loving reunion with her father, wealthy John McKay. But McKay mansion turned a foreboding face to Julie, her father was dead, and her step-family viewed with hostile suspicion the newcomer out to claim the family fortune. But in spite of herself, Julie found herself drawn to Greg Gallagher, the handsome, brooding man whose name was linked with so many unsolved mysteries of the town. Julie knew it was madness to harbor such ardent feelings about the man who might have murdered her father, but she found herself caught in a tightening web of terror.